{"id":623,"date":"2020-08-06T22:35:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T22:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/?p=623"},"modified":"2020-08-06T22:35:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T22:35:16","slug":"august-6th-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/2020\/08\/06\/august-6th-update\/","title":{"rendered":"August 6th Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Questions about Pods;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please continue to keep strict boundaries with these issues.&nbsp; While I want to be sensitive to family\u2019s situations, I do want to keep a clear boundary between school issues and day-care issues.&nbsp; Accommodating the classroom placements due to pod organization is a very quick way to favor privilege and put our underserved populations further at risk with less support.&nbsp; We will likely consider some changes for siblings, but we need to draw the line there.&nbsp; I have held off on responding to most of our parents on this matter because I am waiting for a district level response to this matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Family Survey:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From what I understand now, there will be a survey coming from the district level now, so I will continue to sit on my hands on this one\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Canvas Training<\/strong> &#8211; as I mentioned in the email earlier &#8211; you will be using Canvas to receive training on the following topics;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Building relationships with students\/families<\/em><\/li><li><em>Instructional priorities for Literacy and Math and Scope and Sequence for 20-21<\/em><\/li><li><em>Flexible grouping and providing just-in-time instruction in reading, writing, and math.<\/em><\/li><li>&nbsp;<em>Learn how to utilize Lexia and Dreambox in the classroom and outside the classroom.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/li><li><em>Optional overview for new hires of Wonders, Units of Study, Bridges, Number Corner, Forefront, and digital tools.<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is from the email Skip shared a few weeks ago and as you can see the curriculum material (Bridges) is targeted more for new hires in the optional section and you are not learning Canvas to use as your own teaching tool.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Grade Level Consistency and Teaming<\/strong> &#8211; While we were directed to create grade-level consistency during the spring, this is one area we [I] found really difficult to monitor and support.\u00a0 Pushing for consistency then really caused some struggle for some of you and for better or worse, I let it go.\u00a0 Moving into the fall, this needs to change and we all need to work on calibrating and creating consistency for each grade level.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Designing and sharing lessons as a team is a must-do.\u00a0 For example, if Amber creates a great 4th-grade math lesson, then I expect this to be used for all 4 classes.\u00a0 Start out together as a team and keep your pacing in sync.\u00a0 This will help alleviate a lot of those parent-pod and placement concerns and if we do it well it will cause sharing the burdens of lesson design &amp; development in this virtual environment.\u00a0 It should be fairly easy to share videos, lessons, etc, from our core curriculum areas.\u00a0 I also think we should also consider this for Storyline as well.\u00a0 Once again this will alleviate those parent concerns because their placement in different classes will be less relevant with everyone doing the same storyline in the grade level.\u00a0 Please take a few moments to wrap your heads around this (I know some of you already have) and any challenges we need to address.\u00a0 Let me know your thoughts and questions.\u00a0 I realize this is a big ask, but I want to know what we can put into place to make it easier for you to make this happen.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ICCL Open Position<\/strong> &#8211; there is an open ICCL position.\u00a0 I would like to fill this position asap possibly by the middle of next week.\u00a0 If you are interested;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>please email me and <\/li><li>please ask a colleague to complete the recommendation form (linked below) and email or send it to Candy Gellate HR.\u00a0<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1h_d8FTyiNHcqiR3pfHjLP5npVOgmeCyZ\/view?usp=sharing\">ICCL Colleague Recommendation Form<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1h_d8FTyiNHcqiR3pfHjLP5npVOgmeCyZ\/view?usp=sharing\">ICCL Job Description<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Staffing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I need to revise my timelines for hiring;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I am going to further postpone our Secretary position.\u00a0 Since we don\u2019t have students coming back to the building until the end of October at the soonest, the need to fill this position is decreased.<\/li><li>I had my closing date wrong for the teacher position, but I still want to move this one a little faster.\u00a0 The closing date is Tuesday the 11th.\u00a0 Some of our district-level leadership dates are also changing, so I need to work around those.\u00a0 The new timeline will be screening August 12th-14th.\u00a0 Interview window of August 20-21st.  (unless something else changes on me!!!)<\/li><li>Student Services &#8211; similar to the Secretary position, this will be delayed so we can focus on the teacher position and start-up of CDL first.<\/li><li>Some great news! &#8211; thanks to Colleen Funderberg at Special Programs we will be able to see Jay around a little more as his time will increase.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Special Programs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Special Programs has pulled together a team of special education teachers and specialist to work on standards of practice and to help un-pack the July 2020 Comprehensive Distance Learning Guidance.&nbsp; The work of this team will help inform our fall training needs and district level guidance for students with disabilities during comprehensive distance learning<\/li><li>Special programs has formed an assessment and evaluation workgroup.&nbsp; The work group is tasked with studying recommended health and safety guidelines for in-person assessment and developing recommendations for in-person evaluations.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions about Pods; Please continue to keep strict boundaries with these issues.&nbsp; While I want to be sensitive to family\u2019s situations, I do want to keep a clear boundary between school issues and day-care issues.&nbsp; Accommodating the classroom placements due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/2020\/08\/06\/august-6th-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/brian.kissell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}